It’s travelled nearly 7,000 miles but the final 22 metres proved to be the most challenging for Plymouth’s amazing roof-top swimming pool.

After spending 10 weeks at sea, being shipped from Dubai to Southampton, and then half a day on the road, the pool had to wait nearly a week in a company yard in Plymouth until there was a sufficient break in the weather and it could be lifted on to the top of The Hoe’s £4.5million Rivage apartment block.

But thankfully, at about 2pm on Monday, January 29, the wind dropped and a gigantic crane was able to hoist the metal and fibreglass basin, which cost about £100,000 to make, on to the top of the four-storey pile.

Andy Lester, front and the team from H2O Swimming Pools inside the pool which was hoisted onto the roof of Rivage (Image: Penny Cross)

Workers will now spend two days installing the plumbing and, when all other work on the roof is completed, in about a fortnight, another two days filling the pool with water.

“It’s a really big day for us,” said Lawrence Butler, chairman of developer Devington Homes. “Getting a pool from Dubai to the roof of an apartment building in Plymouth is an amazing feat.”